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Message 1130874 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 5:22:27 UTC

Well, from what I was told, MOTHMAN was in the lab and messed up the defamator. You got a BAD problem when the defamator gets messed up. Mothman don't want anyone to find his home planet, and so WHAM... destroyed the defamator. Take it from me... I'm from West Virginia... I know ALL about Mothman ! (Not real good with defamators though.) :p

Happens at the GBT all the time !!!
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Message 1130935 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 12:07:35 UTC

Following the weekly outage, the new work-experience kid was asked to go and switch everything back on, but was faced with the following POST message:

No keyboard present...
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Message 1131010 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 16:56:22 UTC

There was a campus-wide power cut, but someone had forgot to refill Mr Fusion, the labs backup power supply.
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Message 1131011 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 16:58:12 UTC

Matt & band were in the studio recording a cover of the famous 1976 supergroup The Blue Oyster Cult, when a tragic catastrophic failure of the cowbell array occurred...
"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.
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Message 1131025 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 17:41:16 UTC

Who decided to use MS EXCEL for statistics? This would of course sometimes explain the unexplainable behaviour of this project and nobody knows why. As MS assumes the year of 1900 is a leap year, this would produce leaps in the project!

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BTW: in my former life I used to be a comedian, but now i'm writing error messages for MS.
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Message 1131080 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 19:51:42 UTC

It was Gremlins that caused the outage.
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Message 1131093 - Posted: 23 Jul 2011, 20:29:03 UTC
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Nah - it was most certainly those toe chewing raccoons.


However theories that raccoons are the only thing that scares Eric are unfounded now (although they were true until recently)
But after his trip to Finland he is now absolutely terrified of mosquitoes and gnats. The very sound of their incessant buzzing sends him into a mad fit of panic. During one of these fits he inadvertently uttered that most fateful of phrases, that phrase which must never be uttered, or written down. A phrase so fearful and BAD that it upset the highly nervous Seti at Home servers, they started to gibber with fear in their closet, and once that gibbering had started the only thing that can possibly stop it is to recant that phrase in reverse, not only in word, but also in pitch and tempo. The trouble is Eric, due to his great fear of the sound of the gnats and mosquitoes (which sounds remarkably like that of an errant air chiller unit) he can't recall the exact phrasing of the phrase. It is hoped by a bit of delicate reverse engineering to be able to reassemble the phrase, in reverse order from the sound absorbed into the lab walls during Eric's outburst.....
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Message 1131209 - Posted: 24 Jul 2011, 2:46:04 UTC

OH poo
Everything is well and the Saga ends?
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Message 1131213 - Posted: 24 Jul 2011, 3:07:32 UTC - in response to Message 1131209.  

OH poo
Everything is well and the Saga ends?


No no no, dont say fings like that the servers will hear you and we will have a week of tuesday`s all month.
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Message 1131229 - Posted: 24 Jul 2011, 4:48:41 UTC

I have it on good authority that Megatron is still looking for Sam Witwicky and Optimus Prime sent him back to the dark side of the moon again!


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Message 1131233 - Posted: 24 Jul 2011, 5:04:19 UTC - in response to Message 1131213.  

OH poo
Everything is well and the Saga ends?


No no no, dont say fings like that the servers will hear you and we will have a week of tuesday`s all month.

I hear you
But, I hear the supreme master is in Finland.

Now as a punishment for your OOPS, please go to the Cafe and help Gary fix his dilema in the meantime.
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Message 1131619 - Posted: 25 Jul 2011, 7:04:45 UTC

Ok, ok... here is what REALLY happened. Our cat sitter switched cat food brands and in protest all the raccoons went out on strike.
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Message 1131626 - Posted: 25 Jul 2011, 8:03:31 UTC
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All of you guys are WAAAAAAYYYYYY off on what happened. I hope you all mean your replies as jokes or you are all fools. Everybody knows that the EXACT time and day this happened was the 4,641st anniversary of the aliens bringing us the technology of the pyramids. And when it happened Eric and the other CIA....err I said too much.
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